re: #24 BeenHereAwhile

And Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand - were so shocked and horrified - at Columbus’s abject cruelty and monstrous governance that they clashed with Columbus, stripped him of all his titles and brought him back to Spain in chains.

Not that it really makes much of a difference at this point, but ISTR that Ferdinand and Isabella’s piss-off at Columbus had a lot less to do with that “abject cruelty” (as long as the victims of said cruelty were naked heathen “savages”, the 15th-Century Spanish were - with only a few exceptions - basically indifferent) than with monetary issues: old Chris was, IIRC, less than forthcoming with the loot they thought was due.. And also too quick to exercise the nepotism and cronyism the Royals wanted to preserve for themselves.